Johnstons of Elgin: Woven in Scotland Since 1797

Some textile houses are brands that buy cloth. Johnstons of Elgin is a mill that makes it. The business was founded in 1797 in Elgin, in Moray on the north-east coast of Scotland, and more than two centuries later the Newmill still works beside the River Lossie, the water that first drove its machinery.

A mill that follows the fibre

What sets the house apart is how much of the journey it keeps under its own roof. Raw fibre arrives at Elgin and is dyed, blended, spun and woven there; knitwear is made at the house's second mill in Hawick, in the Scottish Borders. Few makers in the industry still carry a piece from raw fibre to finished product themselves, and it is the reason a Johnstons of Elgin throw feels the way it does: every stage is chosen for the one that follows.

Colour engineered in the dyehouse

Colour at Johnstons is not bought in; it is engineered in the house dyehouse, where depth and clarity are built into the fibre before it is spun. That is how the 2026 Home collection can hold a palette as quiet as stone, peat, otter and oatmeal and still interrupt it with a clean flash of red or turquoise. In the Elgin atelier, selected pieces are then finished by hand — seams flattened, hems turned, corners mitred.

By Royal Appointment

Johnstons of Elgin holds Royal Warrants to His Majesty The King and to Her Majesty The Queen as manufacturers of estate tweeds, knitwear and woven accessories. The house is also a Certified B Corporation, a standard that measures how a business treats its people, its community and the environment.

The Home collection in Canada

The 2026 Home Interiors collection draws on the landscape around the mill: stone, coastline, mineral earth and the deep tidal blues of the northern coast. It is made in cashmere and lambswool, with hints of silk and alpaca, across throws in two standard sizes, a bed throw and cushions designed to layer with them. El Laguito Cigars now supplies the collection in Canada, shipping from Mississauga.